It's been a while since I made videos about
superhero stuff, unless of course you count the best superhero movie of all time, Sharkboy
and Lavagirl. But a couple years ago I did videos about almost every Arrowverse show
and then I just kinda like stopped for whatever reason. Somewhat recently however DC and CW
have come out with a couple new shows, one of which is Stargirl. Now I've been getting
a lot of requests to check this one out and wouldn't you know today's the day. So let's
take a walk. But before that, really quick. . .
We start off with a little flashback of 10 years ago where we get this overly drawn out
scene of a bunch of superheroes just kinda like saying each others names over and over again.
Starman!
Wildcat. Dr. Mid-Nite!
Hourman.
Starman.
Brainwave.
So what we learn from this prologue thing
is that there used to be this group called the Justice Society but, 10 years ago they
were all killed or destroyed or mudhanded or whatever y'know superhero stuff, and then
the world was plunged into darkness. Hoping that one day someone would rise up and put
on their own footie pajamas to fight crime which somehow we've all come to accept as
totally normal. It's over. But the Justice Society must live on.
Someone with honor. Strength. Must carry the torch.
I'll try. Not you.
This literally just sounds like me in high school getting friendzoned by every girl.
"Oh golly gee if only I could find a guy who was as sensitive and caring as you.
Uhhh I mean I'm right here? Oh if only there was a guy out there who was
like you but not actually you oh goodness no not you ugh. But y'know someone just like
you. Oh what a dream that would be". But, at any rate, this brings us to present
day, where we meet our main character Courtney, who is reluctantly packing up her things and getting ready to move.
Can't believe you're moving. Me neither. I really am gonna miss you.
Which I mean yeah y'know like moving sucks but hey fresh start new school full of kids
who don't always bring up that time you farted in 5th grade I mean hey it might not be so bad.
Here comes the new dad. He's not my new dad. He's the reason we're moving to Nebraska.
Oh. Nebraska. Never mind it's worse than I thought.
So here's what the show wants you to think is going on. Courtney over here is the daughter
of Starman, the guy who died like 10 seconds ago, and her new dad is Pat, the guy who got
sidekick-zoned or whatever that was all about, and now I'm starting to wonder what was really
going on in that opening scene 'cause uhhh just a couple of things here maybe starting to look a little suspicious alright.
But anyway after packing everything up the whole family drives all the way from LA to Nebraska.
Hello.
Hi.
Afternoon.
Hello.
How are ya?
Y'know normally this would just be awkward but after surviving this long in 2020 this scene right here is like a literal nightmare
I have almost every night. So after this it's Courtney's first day at
her new school and she gets her new ID which somehow still turns out better than any of
my senior pictures ever did, and as these kinds of shows always go later that day she
has to face the biggest dilemma of her entire life: Where to eat lunch. Bwaaaaaa.
She ends up sitting at the same table I used to sit at back in high school with all the
other losers who everyone was actually just jealous of right y'know what I'm talkin' about
y'know what I'm sayin' everybody! Anybody else? Hello?
So um, what do you guys do for fun around here?
Oh! Oh. We're not friends. This is the table for the singles.
The singles? The losers.
You guys smell that? Smell somethin'? Smells like--
A guy who's hair looks like a yeast infection. But anyway these jock guys harrass this poor
girl and Courtney's like hey knock it off then this guy's like no and then Courtney
just kinda And of course she gets in trouble oooo which
lands her in detention so she misses her bus and has to walk home all by herself like a square.
Now as you can imagine Courtney's getting pretty fed up about all of this like
her new dad moving to Nebraska new school no friends everything just sucks all at once
and she's pretty much had it. So she heads on down to the basement and she's all like
stupid stepdad. Heh. And that's when she finds something a little interesting.
So lame.
Pfft and you thought the first picture was lame.
Turns out her mom married one of these kinds of guys. Seeing this for whatever reason
she gets curious about it and starts digging through Pat's stuff which leads her to find
Starman's old scepter staff thing. And it literally drags her into the middle of town
so she can uh ahem do gymnastics.
Awesome!
Yup. Then it picks her up and flies her off to
the local drive-in theater where we once again see the football jock with gynecological issues
terrorizing some local nerds because deep down he really just wants to feel somethin'.
But when Courtney sees this she gets the idea to get revenge on them because like yeah I
mean when you have a magic scepter like sure you can do a couple flippy flips or you can
melt some dude's face off alright I mean hey tomato tomato.
You're dead kid.
Now realizing she may have gone a little too
far she flies back home and goes to put the scepter back in the box but guess who's right
there waiting for her when she gets back. That's incredibly dangerous!
I know. It blew up a car. You blew up a car?!
I didn't it did! Are you okay and was anyone hurt?
Everyone's fine. The car lost a little resale value though.
Hehehe resale value. 'Cause the car exploded. Ha. Hilarious.
That's good. That's funny. What is this thing anyway?
It's called the Cosmic Staff. Oh hey what are the odds that's also what I call my d--
But as they get to talkin' about the staff
and Starman and superheroes and Comic-con and all that kinda stuff, Courtney starts
to put the pieces together herself and more or less starts figuring out what's going on.
Are you alright? Court? Why would the staff work for me if it only worked for Starman?
What if Starman was my father?
Then the episode comes to an end with us finding out the jock guy's dad is actually one of
the supervillains that killed Starman like 10 years ago and now he knows that someone's
going around using Starman's staff thing. The part about the staff, junior.
Someone. . . they had this glowing thing and-- What did they look like?
And we also learn that Courtney's stepdad's 1950 converti-whatever car actually transforms
into a--I'm sorry. A robot powersuit. 'Cause at this point why not?
Courtney! I told you not to touch the staff. So yeah. This is a show. I mean high school
girl finds out she has gymnastic superpowers, her stepdad is actually her superhero dad's
sidekick with his own Transformers car, and it's all happening in Nebraska of all places.
So as far as superhero shows go I mean it seems pretty generic to me. Like not bad necessarily
but just kinda meh. Now for those of you who've been watching
my channel for a while, first of all thanks for sticking around but also like it's no
secret um if you're new to the channel maybe you don't know maybe this is your first video
I don't know but like it's no secret that I don't really I'm not really the biggest
fan of superhero things like I enjoy them on a very surface level y'know it's fun action
and special effects and all that it's like oh it it's fun to watch but I don't know i
don't really get as into it as some people do for some reason I guess maybe because it's
just so like oversaturated nowadays like I don't know it just seems like every other
show or movie or something is based on a comic book or based on something y'know superheroes
comic books whatever it is and it's just like I don't know. Not that it's necessarily a
bad thing 'cause like y'know things having a source material is is fine it's perfectly
normal but it's just like I don't know like everything everything is superhero not only
is everything superheroes but like not a lot of shows and movies really do anything different
with the superhero thing it's still the same type of origin story it's still the same type
of story beats like Stargirl pretty much just hits like all a lot of the same story beats
I mean there is like a little bit of a different kind of uniqueness to it about how like her
stepdad is Starman's old sidekick and like is Starman really her dad or is it not her
dad spoilers Starman's actually not her dad sorry if I ruined the whole show for you but
like shows like Umbrella Academy and stuff they're a little bit different y'know it's
different setup different type of world like things like that I think are unique and interesting
but for the most part the typical like it just feels so like generic to me in a way
like I said I enjoy it but I don't really not really that into it like I don't really
get how people can be so emotionally attached to superheroes but like not saying you shouldn't
be just saying I don't really get it myself. That's all. Don't forget to subscribe don't
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